Interesting from Santo Domingo.

THE BAEZ PARTY REDUCED TO THE LAST STRAITS—POSITION OF HIS FORCES AT SAN DOMINGO CITY AND SAMANA—WANT OF PROVISIONS—GENERAL PALMANAT AT POINT DE SAMANA—NAVAL NEWS—GERMAN IMMIGRANTS DYING OF HUNGER, ETC.

By the schooner Brenton, from Puerto Plata, we have received files of the Gaceta Oficial of the Dominican republic, from Santiago de los Caballeros, and the following correspondence:

OUR DOMINICAN CORRESPONDENCE.

ST. DOMINGO, Jan. 19, 1858.

Return of the Exiled Correspondent—Position of the Besieging Armies—Surrender of the Baez Steamers—Hopes of Recognition by Foreign Governments—War Vessels Arrived—Naval News, &c.

It is a long time since I had the pleasure to address you, but it has been owing to the political affairs of this country, in consequence of which I have been to exile, residing in Curacoa and Turks' Islands. But now that I am back again, you will receive my letters as regularly as before.

Enclosed you will find a file of the Official Gazette, by which you will perceive that Baez is strictly confined to the city of St. Domingo, and Baez's general at Samana, Gen. Suero, in the city of Samana, by the forces of a large army, besieging said city, where foreign provisions are very scarce, and none at all of the domestic. Produce, also, is very scarce, and the provisions brought by a very few traders, are very small, and sold at exorbitant prices.

According to that account, which confirms the reports brought by the different assemblies of all the communes of the republic, Baez has sent his commissioners to all the towns and villages twelve miles from this city, in order to make a new levy, which has produced a very poor result. Baez's position is very critical. The people are very tired of him, and there is every reason to expect that the new political state of things will soon commence, as Baez suffers the penalty of death for political faults being forever abolished, the right of trial by jury established, harmonizing the democratic principles with the strength of the government. The constitution is favorable to foreigners; not only to those belonging to friendly nations, but to all nations and states of the world that enter into Santo Domingo.

We entertain the hope that as soon as the new authorities take the helm of state we shall see a large number of nations which have representatives in this country take part in it, and we shall see trade again flourishing and concord with international respect, not forgetting that the soil of Santo Domingo is full of resources to be developed by enterprise; and that the whole population of this country, having lost all hope of Baez, expects the new government to expect from every civilized nation that their new rulers will be recognized by the different powers. We have already seen two small sailing vessels of our own fitting for war at Samana, and now there is on the stock at the shipyard of this place three small ones that Baez has on the waters of Samana.

Trade here is getting somewhat better, although money is scarce, and business goes straight and lively, the tobacco crop having been a very large one this year.

[Translated for the New York Herald from La Gaceta Oficial of Santiago de los Caballeros, Jan. 17.]

The facts which the Generals commanding the besieging armies of St. Domingo and Samana, with all their details, have officially communicated to the government, as well as the letters written by private persons from the first of these two places, both to us and to other persons, fully confirm our prediction, that within a very short time we should see the complete downfall of Baez. Such is the inference naturally drawn from the relation made by Gen. Baez at the head of the army besieging the city of St. Domingo, as well as that of Gen. Suero, who commands the troops at Samana, of the loss experienced by them over the troops of Palmanat. No other reason than that he has in advance imposed silence with regard to the siege of Samana could have induced Baez to repeat the repeated defeats our valiant troops caused to him, and it is for this reason that he tries to sustain himself by force of that place is inevitable. It is for this reason that he in advance imposed silence with regard to the war which Generals Puello and Mella are carrying on against the troops of Baez, and prints only reports of the defeats of the enemy, as if a body of troops, residing on that point, has in advance put a curb on Baez's power to corrupt, and monopolized the bad news he is receiving from Samana.

Be this as it may, our predictions receive every day new confirmation relative to the speedy termination of the existence of Baez, whose forces are diminishing every day. As our readers will learn from the communication addressed by Gen. Bide, under date of the 7th inst., to the provisional government, the spirit of revolt against Baez, which is everywhere, and more particularly among the inhabitants of the communes of the south, both on the coast and in the interior, is going on increasing. When Santana left that place it was with no other view than to go to the different communes of St. Domingo, such as San Cristobal, Los Banos and Pajarito, who, unfortunately for them, since the war began, had given their assistance to the faction of Baez, and the troops of the race, who, although small in number, have done great hurt to the provinces. We must, in consequence of this move, expect Baez to invite the population of St. Domingo to surrender within two or three days. It is impossible, besides, the great majority of the population, that Baez has gathered inside the two localities above mentioned, are composed of very poor people, who can produce no bread (nor produce what they did not find) and any others on their small farms which they leave to take up arms; they cannot even eat a little cocoa nut, what kind of food can they get out of them? We do not see how Baez can sustain himself in those two places, both to us and to other persons.

To the above must be added those military persons who, in consequence of their not having received their pay, and idea that our flotilla might cut off their retreat. Poor wretches, they say, 'Baez promises them to-day and to-morrow to pay for their experience, and takes them on board his vessels, and what sort of treatment does he give them?'—they ask—'he leaves them to die of hunger!'

It is known, besides, that the Baez ships sent by Baez to Samana he has not had any news, although they left St. Domingo since the 1st inst. He expects the Baez ship, the Baxe, every moment, but she does not appear. Thus Baez has at present no slip left at his disposal, since those three carry on trade, create no end of trouble, named El Liberador, la Australia and El Cirus, 19 de Julio, having been given up or taken by the forces of the Dominican government, as well as the flotilla of Baez, and the government by Her Commander, and la Merced having been run on shore by a merchant vessel; and as to the former left that place that he was not even able to speak.

According to that account, which confirms the reports, the soldiers who form the battalion under the command of General Palmanat, which has arrived at Samana, have experienced a series of bad treatment and hardships, as is confirmed by the commander of Puerto Plata in his despatch of the 13th instant to the government, in which he states that the former left that place that he was not even able to speak; and to these must be added that the remaining of the peninsula find themselves in a very very bad situation as far as food is concerned, being reduced to eat cocoa nuts and palmae, as stated by the same individual.

What must be added to all these facts is, a sincere sympathy, adds of that his companions act like him, and have fled to St. Domingo and to Samana, for wickedness and crimes, and have made their submission. Only two days ago two or three of them had asked from us their pardon, which we granted them, on condition to the contract on the stipulation of which they had left their work; and to these must be added that their intention, and kept even for some days in the neighborhood of St. Domingo, is to make their submission, as it is intended to send them to the provisional government, to be released by the government, if they have not committed crimes. Why have they not accepted the benevolent offer of Gen. Santana? Because they know, as it is said in the contract, that they would be punished; and those who were under those unfortunate persons had been taken by Gen. Santana with military measures to prevent them from perishing by hunger.